Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Beard

Bulb: potential flower buried in Autumn, never to be seen again.

Henry A. Kissinger

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Helen Hayes

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Helen Hayes

If you rest, you rust.

Helen Gurley Brown

good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere

Nature, time and patience are three great physicians.

Hedy Lamarr

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

Hedy Lamarr

It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.

Heather Mills

There are many other kinds of milk available. Why don't we try drinking rats' milk and dogs' milk?

Hector Hugh Munro

Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.

Hector Hugh Munro

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

Hector Hugh Munro

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

Henry David Thoreau

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Henry David Thoreau

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

Henry David Thoreau

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

Henry David Thoreau

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

John C. Maxwell

Maturity does not always come with age; sometimes age comes alone.

John Abercrombie

To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.

James Roday

Dude, are my eyes seeing what my brain is telling my eyes that they're seeing?

James Russell Lowell

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train.

James Russell Lowell

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

Laurence J. Peter

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Laurence J. Peter

Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

Laurence J. Peter

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Laurence J. Peter

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

Laurence Sterne

Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary, that upon this page and the five following, a good quantity of heterogeneous matter be inserted, to keep up that just balance betwixt wisdom and folly, without which a book would not hold together a single year.

Laurence Sterne

There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.

Laura Dern

You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin

Larry Gelbart

Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Let me tell you, honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

Johnny Carson

It was so hot today that Burger King was singing, "if you want it your way, cook it yourself."

Al Franken

You know, Lincoln was funny. I don't think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you're funny.